Electrochemistry
“Are you wearing heels?” I asked, and my mother nodded. “Mom, trust me, you don’t want to wear them in lab. You should switch them to some flats.” And she did, rather begrudgingly. My mom was visiting me a few months ago, and for whatever reason, decided that it would be a good idea to experience a full day in a chemistry lab. Not a very good start, I thought, but at least she was sensible enough to wear a comfortable shirt and a pair of jeans.
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Electrochemistry
I Took My Mom to See Science Live
“Are you wearing heels?” I asked, and my mother nodded. “Mom, trust me, you don’t want to wear them in lab. You should switch them to some flats.” And she did, rather begrudgingly. My mom was visiting me a few months ago, and for whatever reason, decided that it would be a good idea to experience a full day in a chemistry lab. Not a very good start, I thought, but at least she was sensible enough to wear a comfortable shirt and a pair of jeans.
- Guest Post: A Philosophical Consideration Of Total Synthesis
This post comes from outside the Baran lab. A very talented undergraduate (Wade Miller) from the University of Pennsylvania sent us his paper from an assignment in philosophy class regarding the relevance of total synthesis in the modern era....
- Diterpenoid-alkaloids Are So...fancy (you Already Know)
The second paper on our efforts toward diterpenes and related diterpenoid-alkaloids is out in JACS now. This is building off of work previously published in Angewante last year. The story of this project goes back more than 5 years. ...
- Electrochemical Synthesis Of Dixiamycins
Phil Baran upon learning about electrochemistry UPDATE: Our paper was highlighted on Deadspin! UPDATE 2: Support from the San Diego Chargers! Our paper on the total synthesis of dixiamycin B is now live in the JACS ASAP section, which means it's my...
- Structural Reassignment By Cool Science
Today, Vinogradova, Muller, and Buchwald have an excellent piece of investigative science in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. that I think is great, just great. And honestly, I'm a bit jaded and easily unimpressed (especially when the work isn't directly...
- Experiments With Googling
[Disclaimer - I couldn't think of any good images for this blog post, so to liven it up a bit here are a few things you can use: 1) An ASCII game you can play in your browser that is quite fun - pro tip - let it run in the background while you're...